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QFD Green Belt^® Update Package

WHEN: 1.5-day package = Symposium (2012 November 2) + QFD Green Belt^® UPDATE Course (half-day on 2012 November 4)

WHERE: St. Augustine, Florida USA

REGISTRATION

OVERVIEW: Many new advancements have been made in QFD over the last few years. If it has been more than a year since you attended the QFD Green Belt^® Course, we strongly recommend this refresher course.

The QFD Green Belt^® UPDATE Course is a half-day, semi-private continuing education exclusively for those who have successfully graduated from the QFD Institute's QFD Green Belt^® Course in the past. It is especially recommended for those who earned a Provisional QFD Green Belt^® before November 2011.

This half-day Update Course will be held on Sunday, November 4, 2012 from 8 am to 12 pm noon.

Created in response to students' request to help keep the momentum going, this Update Course offers you an opportunity to update and enhance the QFD knowledge and skills learned in your previous course. You can bring your QFD samples for critique and coaching, or send your questions in advance. Attendees of this Update Course are eligible to enroll in the 2012 QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Course (Nov 4–Nov 5, also in St. Augustine) in a single trip.

Your registration also include the 1-day Symposium on Friday, November 2, 2012 from 8 am to 4:30 pm plus a networking reception. This year's Symposium includes Hoshin Kanri overview tutorial.

Who Should Attend:

Six Sigma Black Belts & Master Black Belts, Project Team Members & Leaders, DFSS Professionals, New Product Development, Marketing & Sales, Engineering, Design, Manufacturing, Facilitators, Consultants, Quality Professionals, Training Scouts Who Report To Management
Attending from Overseas

Prerequisites:  

Those who have earned a Provisional or Full Status QFD Green Belt^® Certificate. This course is recommended especially for those who graduated from the QFD Green Belt^® Course with a Certificate before November 2011.

Proof of Prerequisites: Please indicate on the Registration Form your provisional or full status QFD Green Belt^® Certificate Number; or the year / city of the Public QFD Green Belt^® Courses that you have completed; or the company name where you have completed the in-house QFD Green Belt^® course.

Contents: 

This half-day course on November 3, 2012 reviews the core knowledge of the QFD Green Belt^® Course and also covers the latest advancements in the curriculum. Your registration fee includes:

• a half-day QFD Green Belt^® Update Course with the latest release of the Green Belt^® training manual and templates;
• 1-year extension of the provisional Green Belt status;
• 1-day Symposium (November 2, 2012) and a networking reception.

Most importantly, those who are ready to step up to the next level are invited to attend the QFD Black Belt^® (2012 November 5–9) on the same trip.

Planned for this QFD Green Belt® Update Course are the following topics:

• Improved algorithms for defining Customer Needs (Demanded Quality) for "new-to-world" products and services;
• Incorporating Blitz QFD^® into Dr. Akao's Comprehensive QFD to speed up the process;
• Why and how of replacing ordinal scale calculations with ratio scale calculations of customer needs priorities, sales point, competitive benchmarking, and matrix relationship weights - to bring your QFD math to Six Sigma provisions;
• Introduction to Kansei Engineering and Lifestyle QFD.
• Other topics may be added at the discretion of the instructor or at the request of students.

Recommended Things To Bring:

1. A laptop computer (with CD drive, MS Excel^®, MS Word^®, and Adobe Acrobat^® 7.0) or calculator as you will receive Modern QFD and AHP templates and case studies on a CD, to use during this course;
2. Relevant marketing and technical data for a small project or a part of a large project that you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future. (You will not be asked to reveal any confidential data. The goal is to make the QFD exercises real and meaningful to you! If it is not feasible to bring such data, you may use a generic model that is most commonly used by various industries. Or create a case study related to your hobby or personal project.)

• (Optional) Your QFD samples for critiques and coaching. You may also send your questions in advance.

Registration:

The fees for 2012 QFD Green Belt^® Update Packages are:

• US$845 when registration is completed before 2012 August 31.
• US$895 when registration is completed after 2012 August 31

Please use Registration Forms.

Considerations: You may also wish to consider attending the QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Course on the same trip. In that case, we recommend selecting "QFD Black Belt Package #1" which includes [Symposium] + [QFD Green Belt^® Update] + [QFD Black Belt^®] at a greater price break overall.

The above registration fees include the latest edition of QFD Green Belt^® training manuals, MS Excel Modern QFD template, your admission to the Symposium with a Hoshin mini tutorial (Nov 2), a copy of the 2012 symposium transactions and QFD student resource pack, networking reception (Nov 2), and continental breakfast/lunch/coffee breaks on Nov 2. (No Lunch on the half-day Nov 4)

For questions, please contact us (+1 734-995-0847).

Venue

All QFD courses and Symposium will be held at the following venue hotel.

Hilton St. Augustine Historic Bayfront
32 Avenida Menendez, St Augustine, FL 32084
Tel: 904-829-2277

Hotel Reservation information (Hotel reservations should be made directly with the hotel in advance. QFDI group rate is available)

Travel information

St. Augustine information

Inquiry

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